NASA launches lunar impactor
Friday, June 19, 2009 - 02:07
in Astronomy & Space
NASA successfully launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, Thursday on a mission to search for water ice in a permanently shadowed crater at the moon's south pole. The satellite lifted off on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 5:32 PM EDT, with a companion mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO...
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